MYL offers legal help to Kappan
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Siddhique Kappan and three others were arrested on October 5.
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The Muslim Youth League (MYL) has offered legal help to Siddhique Kappan, the New Delhi-based Malayali journalist jailed in Uttar Pradesh under the provisions of the Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act.
This was conveyed to Raihanath Siddique, Mr. Kappan’s wife, when she visited Panakkad Syed Munavvar Ali Shihab Thangal, State president, and P.K. Firos, general secretary, on Saturday. Haris Beeran, Supreme Court lawyer, who was present at the meeting, informed her that a special counsel would be arranged at the apex court.
Jailed Kerala journalist’s wife seeks CM’s intervention
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Family to stage dharna in Thiruvananthapuram in January
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Family to stage dharna in Thiruvananthapuram in January Raihanath Siddique, wife of New Delhi-based Malayali journalist Siddique Kappan, has sought Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s intervention for her husband’s release. Mr. Kappan is in a Mathura jail at present after the Uttar Pradesh police booked him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on October 5 while he was on his way to report the rape and murder of a girl in Hathras.
She told the media here on Tuesday that the family would stage a dharna in Thiruvananthapuram in the first week of January, raising the demand. Ms. Siddique claimed that the U.P. government had tried to humiliate the Delhi unit of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), when it sought bail for him in the Supreme Court. Mr. Kappan is the secretary of the unit.